Setback for Tigers

(FrontLine) EVEN as the legitimacy and international acceptance that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sought continued to elude it, the rebel organisation suffered a major loss when its political wing leader for the eastern Batticaloa-Amparai district, E. Kousalyan, was shot dead in an ambush on February 7 at Welikanda, in the government-held north-central Polonnaruwa district.